Posted on 03/29/2009 2:35:03 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
I understand there is a new anti-freeper site started by disgruntled former and present Mormon FReepers and it is their intention of bankrupting FR during the coming Freepathon by withholding their donations and disrupting our activities. Well, all I can say is, if they feel that badly against FR, by all means they should withhold their donations and drop out of FR. But it they attempt to disrupt our operations I will guarantee they will no longer be members of FR. If that is their wish, so be it.
I'm not going to try to defend FR from their claims of religious persecution, but I will say that Mormons have and always have had free reign to post their threads on FR just as all other religious groups have enjoyed. Free Republic defends the right to freedom of religion and has always welcomed religious discussion and always will. And Mormons have always been welcome here. I have absolutely nothing against Mormons.
If you are one who has left or is leaving, I wish you well, but disruption of FR is not welcome and will not be tolerated.
And this is not the first time such activity has been attempted by groups of disgruntled former FReepers. Good luck with that. There is always some group that feels FR should be bent to their way of thinking and end up saying my way or the highway. Well, I don't know about you, but I'm not changing so I guess it's the highway. Is it Feb 8 yet?
God bless.
Amen........
It was them darned Moravians!
Not only does the Emperor have no clothes but you are our best asset...
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You even try to make the reader laugh so they will not remember that you have been given the answer many times, and thow the answer shows how your replies mislead the reader.
You on the other hand either don't check or lie about it, then call me a liar.
....And you have often made the claim that it is my duty to know whether JS or BY were speaking as men or prophets when they said "XYZ".
Allow me to lay out the "mormon propagandist" method of argument.
1. Ignore the quotes.
2. Claim quotes are out of context.
3. Claim quotes came from Anti-Mormon site so you won't check them.
4. Claim messenger is lying.
5. Claim quoted "prophet" was speaking as a man at the time.
6. Claim messenger is hateful bigot.
7. Complain openly about being "persecuted".
8. Complain to mods about being "persecuted".
9. Start flame war to get thread pulled.
Did I miss anything ?
You never answer questions, you are like the mormon version of Baghdad Bob.
Or did you come to he conclusion it is not?
Oh and BTW thank you VERY much for answering my question.
“Can you really believe that?
Since you specifically ask, Fred, yes. It is very easy
to see what your posts are doing.
A statement is made. Your posts try to finesse it so that
people unfamiliar with the doctrines of mormonism think
it sounds Christian, which it isn’t
Mormonism teaches God used to be a man.
Don’t finesse it. Just own it.
Same thing with polytheism (the mormonism teaching that there are many gods) - potentially billions or trillions.
With new ones created at any time.
Posts using your approach will try to say, we only worship
one god. That doesn’t mean mormonism doesn’t teach that
every mormon male is potentially a new god someday - in
the same way it teaches that the god mormons worship used
to be a man.
Right there for everyone to see. Your right to believe whatever you wish. If you believe it though, I wonder why
there is so much finessing happening in your posts?
ampu
I know Navajo FRY bread.
Nice PERSONAL ATTACK there, OO.
Typical protester response.
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I do not see how you cannot want to see how one of the posters here at FR misguides readers into believing something about this Church that is not true.
Why do you change the subject instead of insuring ya’ll are teaching the truth.
Here you go again. I posted a referenced quote FROM YOUR OWN BOOKS, FROM YOUR OWN FOUNDERS and you claim I'm lying.
Baghdad Bob would be proud.
LOL
You never did answer the follow up question...
I really am beginning to think you are the most clever “anti Mormon” on FR...
No one can be that obtuse unless it is by design...
This thread is NOT posted in the Religion Forum. The RF guidelines do not apply here.
lol, yet the Mormons who have engaged in like comments are what?
Nowhere?
The Silent Majority decided to EXPOSE the LIES of the LDS ORGANIZATION® based in SLC - that's all.
I guess some folks think they're doing the Almighty's work in exposing what they see as the truth but the "slash and burn" method of evangelism makes me want to run as fast as I can in the opposite direction.
Fight or Flee - the biologists name it.
The whole religion forum is awash in sulphuric acid. It's a scandal.
What was the phrase St. Paul used...........??
Ah yes......"endless disputations".
That sums it up perfectly.
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Remember, I have been showing you that the p-man used his straw man argument to misdirect the reader.
Please show where he asked a question that was not an attempt to deceive you by his use of his straw man, or where he used another question so we would not continue to reference his straw man misdirection.
My eyes were opened in a brand new way many, many years ago while visiting one.
Oh how they love Yeshua....and oh how they were banished and shunned from their families for their belief. Not unlike mormon's who leave the LDS...
The stories they told were amazing to me...I was a fairly green Christian at the time...and they taught me much.
FRegards,
Naturally it is you that denies the truth of your teachings.
You post the quote of yours above continually to people that post quotes from your teachings.
Then you say they are misleading readers.
With the quotes from YOUR teachers and prophets.
So you essentially saying that your teachings are misleading (false) as they are written and quoted.
I'm beginning to believe you on that.
I really love those threads. One minute the Disrupters are here, then POOF! Its off to the land of.... Zot!!
So bring it on trouble makers. My Viking Kitties are veeeeery hungry. 
You're all a bunch of ungrateful slugs!
There is a more definitive search function than the "A to Z" search at the LDS website, Fred. Searching "Exalted Man" at the LDS.org website yields this:
I will go back to the beginning before the world was, to show what kind of a being God is. What sort of a being was God in the beginning? Open your ears and hear, all ye ends of the earth, for I am going to prove it to you by the Bible, and to tell you the designs of God in relation to the human race, and why He interferes with the affairs of man.
God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens! That is the great secret. If the veil were rent today, and the great God who holds this world in its orbit, and who upholds all worlds and all things by His power, was to make himself visible—I say, if you were to see him today, you would see him like a man in form—like yourselves in all the person, image, and very form as a man; for Adam was created in the very fashion, image and likeness of God, and received instruction from, and walked, talked and conversed with Him, as one man talks and communes with another.
In order to understand the subject of the dead, for consolation of those who mourn for the loss of their friends, it is necessary we should understand the character and being of God and how He came to be so; for I am going to tell you how God came to be God. We have imagined and supposed that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea, and take away the veil, so that you may see.
These ideas are incomprehensible to some, but they are simple. It is the first principle of the gospel to know for a certainty the character of God, and to know that we may converse with Him as one man converses with another, and that He was once a man like us; yea, that God himself, the Father of us all, dwelt on an earth, the same as Jesus Christ Himself did; and I will show it from the Bible.
I haven't brought up previous threads, but it appears you are
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